Scientific challenge projects
Internal calls for projects have been organised since 2014 in order to :
- Contribute to develop the « excellence » or « leadership » of the Research centre
- Develop new research topics, new skills (« ground-breaking » projects)
- Support the development of emerging approaches or innovative methodologies:
- omics (genomics, metagenomics, metabolomics, isotopomics…)
- epigenetics and epigenomics
- pheno or chemo-typing approaches
- big data, modelling
- plants in urban ou suburban environment
The scientific leader had to belong to a research unit/team of the SFR Quasav
Structures outside SFR QUASAV may be partners, but only structures from the Pays de la Loire region can be funded.
Type of funded projects : PhD or Post-doc projects (salary + running costs < 125 k€), Starter projects to initiate new research themes (< 25 k€).
Evaluation process
Each project was reviewed by 2 external experts (national or international) according to the following criteria:
- Originality and Novelty / state of the art
- Feasibility
- Valorization potential (for the team and for the recruited scientist)
- Relevance / scientific approach
- Relevance / financial support and existing resources
A total of 106 projects have been submitted and 60 have been funded (33 PhDs, 8 post-docs and 19 starters) for an amount of €5.4 million (all grants included)
8 projects have been selected in 2019 for an amount of €0.78 million (all grants included).
Upload the file «Scientific challenge projects 2019 RFI Objectif Végétal".
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Scientific challenge projects 2019
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PhDs | |||
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Acronym |
Research unit/ team |
Coordinator |
Project title /Key Words |
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IRHS - QuaRVeg |
Mathilde BRIARD / Latifa HAMAMA |
Flavonoids and resistance of Carrot to Alternaria dauci / L eaf blight, Quantitative resistance, Carrot, Secondary metabolites, UHPLC-ESI-MSn, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing | |
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IRHS - BIDefI |
Sébastien AUBOURG / Jean-Pierre RENOU |
Functional characterization of a new family of secreted peptides involved in defense and development control in Arabidopsis / hormonal peptide, phytocytokine, ROS detoxification, defense signaling, root development, pathogen resistance | |
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EPHor |
Jean-Charles MICHEL |
Substrate Texture: A unifying approach to explain and control Physical Properties and Water Efficiency in Horticultural Substrates / particle size, particle shape, structure, hydrophobicity, water retention | |
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SONAS |
Pascal RICHOMME |
In silico-guided design of semisynthetic antifungal derivatives targeting the Unfolded Protein Response (UPR) pathway: Towards an alternative crop protection / plant pathologies, phytochemistry | |
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Post-doc | |||
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IRHS - SMS |
Françoise MONTRICHARD |
Exploring new ways to control Legume nitrate utilization and signaling/ sustainable agriculture, agronomic context, Medicago truncatula, nitrate signal, primary root growth, early legume establishment, reactive oxygen species, differential gene expression, metabolomics, fluxomics | |
| IRHS - Conserto | Jérôme VERDIER |
Deciphering the molecular switch of seed desiccation tolerance to improve plant stress tolerance / chromatin conformation, epigenetics, desiccation tolerance, seeds, stress | |
| Starters | |||
| THERMIT | IRHS - SMS | David MACHEREL |
Building subcellular thermometers to study plant mitochondria self-warming in the context of cold tolerance / mitochondria, cold tolerance, freezing tolerance, thermosensor |
| TRANSMISSION | IRHS - EmerSys | Armelle DARRASSE |
Transcriptome profiling of plant-bacterial interactions during seed transmission / Seed transmission, seed development, transcriptomes, methylomes, Phaseolus vulgaris, Xanthomonas citri pv. fuscans |
11 projects have been selected in 2018 for an amount of €1.14 million (all grants included).
Upload the file "Scientific challenge projects 2018 RFI Objectif Végétal".
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Scientific challenge projects 2018 | |||
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PhDs | |||
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Acronym |
Research unit/ team |
Coordinator |
Project title /Key Words |
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EPHor |
Pierre-Emmanuel Bournet |
Quantifying and modelling Climatic Services provided by Trees inside a Canyon Street / Water, soil, plant, agronomy, urban, ecosystem services, heat island, modelling, transpiration | |
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IRHS-SMS |
PLANCHET Elisabeth / TEULAT Béatrice |
Role of nitrogen in plant-fungal pathogen interactions during seedling establishment / Arabidopsis thaliana, Alternaria brassicicola, Sustainable agriculture, Defence responses, Nitrate transporters, Nitrogen metabolism, Nutrition, Signalling | |
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EPHor |
Etienne CHANTOISEAU (Patrice CANNAVO) |
Garden Orchard Systems: Research Into the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum / soil-plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC); garden orchard; agroforestry; water and nitrogen balance | |
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LEVA |
Fustec Joëlle |
Towards the production of pea ideotypes more efficient in soil nitrogen absorption for improving weed control in low input innovative intercrops / Intercropping, legume, weed control, nitrate absorption, biological nitrogen fixation, transceivers, lateral roots, Nod factors | |
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IRHS-Respom |
DEGRAVE Alexandre | PRi Optimizination by dna MEthylation and Transposable Elements studies : Unraveling their persistance and performance modulation by environmental constraints ; an apple case Study / Plant resistance inducers, epigenetics, transposable elements, immune memory, heat stress | |
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IRHS-ARCH'E |
José Le Gourrierec-Gentilhomme |
Rosa miPEPs and miRNAs: new friendly-environmentally tools to control branching? / miRNAs, miPEPs, post-transcriptional regulation, light intensity, Rosa hybrida | |
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IRHS-Respom |
Muranty Hélène |
Effective use of genetic resources in the apple elite breeding population with genomic selection/ genetic diversity; introgression; breeding scheme; apple | |
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Post-doc | |||
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IRHS-Respom |
CHEVREAU Elisabeth | Durable resistance of apple trees to fire blight: validation of a major QTL by genome editing / apple, fire blight, resistance, durability, cloning, gene-editing, CRISPR | |
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Starter | |||
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IRHS-QuaRVeg |
Berruyer Romain |
Biosynthesis and biological activity of aldaulactone, a fungal toxin involved in the pathogenicity of Alternaria dauci, the main causal agent of carrot leaf blight / polyketides, fungal toxin, plant cell cultures, yeast transformation, labelled analogues | |
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IRHS-Emersys |
LE SAUX MArion |
Development of tools to characterize the interaction Xanthomonas arboricola pv. Pruni / Prunus armeniaca / wild compartment, centre of origin, Xanthomonas, apricot, detection, phenotyping | |
| ROGER |
IRHS-GDO |
FOUCHER Fabrice |
Genetic and genomic of the Rose resistance against Black Spot Disease / Rosa, Diplocarpon rosae, resistance genes, connected populations, association genetics, transcriptomic and comparative genomics |
14 projects have been selected in 2017 for an amount of €1.17 million (all grants included).
Upload the file "Scientific challenge projects 2017 RFI Objectif Végétal".
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Scientific challenge projects 2017 | |||
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PhDs | |||
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Acronym |
Research unit/ team |
Coordinator |
Project title /Key Words |
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IRHS-Emersys |
Nicolas CHEN |
Bean Resistance Using TAL effectors / Bean, disease resistance, Xanthomonas, TAL effectors | |
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SONAS |
Andreas Schinkovitz |
Formation of Apple-Phytoalexins and their detection by Laser Desorption Ionization and related Methods / Apple, Phytoalexins, Matrix Assisted and Matrix Free Laser Desorption Ionization, Fingerprint Analysis, Resistance, Erwinia amylovora , Venturia inaequalis | |
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IRHS_QuaRVeg |
Emmanuel GEOFFRIAU / Didier PELTIER |
Genotype-EnvironmentS Interaction for Improving QUAlity and stability of carrot crop /Arotenoid, genetics, biosynthesis pathway | |
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RCIM (SiFCIR) UPRES EA 2647 / USC INRA 1330 SFR 4207 QUASAV |
Pr Valérie RAYMOND |
Identification of cellular and molecular resistance mechanisms to develop innovative strategies in pest insect control / Pest insects - insecticide - resistance - nicotinic acetylcholine receptors | |
| ROSAROS |
IRHS-ARCH'E |
Alain VIAN |
Implication of reactive oxygen species in the control of branching in plants / Reactive oxygen species – NADPH oxydase – Branching - Bud |
| ROZRESIST | IRHS - GDO | Soufflet-Freslon Vanessa |
Genetics and genomics of rose resistance to black spot disease / Rosa, Diplocarpon rosae, resistance genes, connected populations, association mapping, transcriptome, diversity |
| SEEQUATOM | IRHS-Conserto | Olivier LEPRINCE |
A systems biology approach to unravel the acquisition of seed quality during fruit ripening in tomato / embryo, endosperm, gene network, locular gel, maternal environment, maturation, testa, transcriptomics, usable plantlets, vigour |
| TRIANGLE | IRHS - ResPom |
Durel Charles-Eric(genetics) Brisset Marie-Noëlle (PDS) |
Triangular relationships between constitutive defenses, partial genetic resistance and efficiency of plant defense stimulators in apple / Basal defenses, constitutive expression, genetic variation, partial resistance, plant defense stimulator, RT-qPCR, genome-wide association mapping, QTL mapping, expression QTL, apple, scab, fire blight |
| Divin-Xf | IRHS-Emersys | Emergence of Xylella fastidiosa in France: diversity of strains and invasion routes | |
| Post-doc | |||
| PREDIPATH | IRHS-Emersys | Marion FISCHER-LE SAUX |
Design of marker sets and online tools to predict plant pathogenicity of bacteria / Comparative genomics, predictive tool, genotypic markers, bacteria, plant pathogens |
| Starter | |||
| DIVIS | IRHS-Bioinfo | Julie BOURBEILLON |
Biological Data Integration and Visualisation/ Heterogeneous datasets, data integration, ontology, data visualisation |
| EPICLONES | IRHS-ARCH'E | Nathalie LEDUC |
ENVIRONMENTAL EPIGENETIC VARIANTS AS CLONAL MATERIAL IN HORTICULTURE/ Urban horticulture, environmental stress, Epigenetic, vegetative propagation, mother-plants |
| IONIS | IRHS-SESaN | Françoise MONTRICHARD |
Impact Of exogenous Nitrogen on early Seedling establishment of legumes / Sustainable agriculture, agronomic context, Medicago truncatula, nitrate signal, primary root growth, early legume establishment, abscisic acid, reactive oxygen species, differential gene expression |
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LBPV |
Lucie POULIN |
Seed-carried Microbiota from Orobanche during the early parasitic (Orobanche) cycle. Microbiote de l’Orobanche apporté par la graine à travers le cycle parasitaire/ Metagenomics, microbiota, parasitic plant, Orobanche, diversity | |
10 projects have been selected in 2016 for an amount of €0.9 million (all grants included).
Upload the file «Scientific challenge projects 2016 RFI Objectif Végétal".
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Scientific challenge projects 2016 | |||
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Acronym |
Research unit/ team |
Coordinator |
Project title |
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UMR IRHS - GDO |
Fabrice FOUCHER |
Phylogenomics of the genus Rosa - polyploidy and hybridization as diversification forces | |
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UMR IRHS - SESaN |
Béatrice TEULAT |
Exploring Medicago truncatula natural genetic diversity to study nitrogen use efficiency during seedling growth under low temperature and nitrogen supply | |
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LBPV (U Nantes) |
Grégory MONTIEL |
Deciphering of Haustorium Development in Orobanche sp | |
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UMR IRHS -Ecofun |
Christophe LEMAIRE |
Effects of Secondary Contacts and Admixture on a Pathogen Epidemiological Success | |
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UMR IRHS -Fungisem |
Thomas GUILLEMETTE |
NEw MOlecular factors involved in Fungal pathogenicitY | |
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UMR IRHS -ARCH-E |
Jessica BERTHELOOT |
Functional-structural modelling of bud burst patterns in | |
| SCALD | UMR IRHS -Qualipom | Mathilde ORSEL-BALDWIN | Early identification of a major fruit-preserving disease: superficial scalding of apples |
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Post-doc | |||
| DEEP-DIVING | IRHS - Ecofun | Bruno LE CAM | DoEs host domEstication Promote effectors DIVersification IN pathoGens? |
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Starter | |||
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IRHS - ARCH-E |
Lydie HUCHE-THELIER |
Ornamental bush Architecture under urban conditions | |
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IRHS-ResPom |
CE DUREL / MN BRISSET |
Constitutive level of basal defences in healthy apple cultivars as predictors of multi-resistance and performance plant defence stimulators | |
14 projects have been selected in 2014 and 2015 for an amount of €1.2 million (all grants included).
The attached document summarizes, by research area, the context, project objectives and methodology.
Upload the summary presentation of the 14 selected projects
Interdisciplinary projects
The call for projects is open on an ongoing basis. Its aim is to strengthen interdisciplinarity with regional and external (national or international) teams, even if external teams cannot be financed from the Objectif Végétal budget.
The project must receive co-financing in the order of 50 %.
Evaluation process
Each project is reviewed with the help of an external expert (national or international) according to the following criteria:
- adequacy with the research priorities of Objectif Végétal or the development of innovative approaches;
- interdisciplinarity;
- novelty of the partnerships and expected outcomes of these partnerships;
- importance of the co-financing brought to the project.
3 projects have been selected since 2014 for an amount of € 311 000 (all grants included)
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Acronym |
Disciplines/ Research unit/ team
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Coordinator |
Project title /Key Words |
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PedRo |
Mathématics, history, epistémology - IRHS - GDO, TEMOS (Univ. of Angers), LAREMA (Univ. of Angers), Centre François Viète (Univ. of Nantes), IRHS - Bidefi |
Jérémy CLOTAULT |
Interdisciplinarity of heredity by reconstruction of pedigrees for a species with mixed ploidy levels and a high historical heritage: roses bred during the 19thand 20thcenturies / inheritance, pedigree, polyploidy, database, microsatellites, rosebush |
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EPIC |
Plant biology, sea cluster - IRHS - Fungisem, Sea Molecules Health Lab. (Univ. of Nantes), SONAS (Univ. of Angers) |
Thomas GUILLEMETTE |
Epigenetic therapy for shaping fungal pathogenic behavior / Epigenetics, biocontrol agents, phytopathogen agents, marine fungi, secondary metabolites
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D Lect |
Plant biology, Human Health Cluster - IRHS - Respom, CRCINA Inserm - ATOMycA and Innate Immunity and Immunotherapy teams |
Alexandre DEGRAVE |
Deciphering apple LECTin’s biological properties / Lectin, Apple tree, pathogenic bacteria, cancer |
"New researchers" projects
The call for projects is open on an ongoing basis. It aims to encourage the arrival of confirmed and promising researchers in the Pays de la Loire region by offering them a "running costs envelope" to enable them to launch their research activities as quickly as possible. The researcher must be appointed to a statutory post.
The project must receive co-financing in the order of 50 %.
Evaluation process
Each project is reviewed with the help of an external expert (national or international) according to the following criteria:
- candidate profile ;
- added value for the Region and the Objectif Végétal programme;
- research project, adequacy with Objectif Végétal programme's priority areas or the development of innovative approaches;
- co-financing of the project.
3 projects have been selected since 2014 for an amount of € 247 170 (all grants included).
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Acronym |
Research unit/ team
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New researcher |
Project title /Key Words |
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Magmaé |
IRHS - Epicenter |
Etienne BUCHER |
Creating the Malus genome Atlas |
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Fireman |
IRHS-Bidefi |
Sébastien AUBOURG |
Functional characterization of a new secreted peptide involved in defense response against pathogens / Defense network, secreted peptide, pathogens, hormone crosstalk
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BASIS |
IRHS - Conserto |
Jérôme VERDIER |
Biotic and Abiotic Stresses and their Impacts on Seeds / Seed, longevity, stress, Legume, GWAS, Gene Network |
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